Does this work for Dropbox?

The official word from the FAQ is that cloud documents are not supported. The plugin does work with Dropbox, however it’s a bit tricky at the moment so you’re kind of at the mercy of your own skills. However I can try to point you in the right direction.

You’ll have to navigate to your document in dropbox and click on the “share” link to get the public link to your document. It may look something like this (the below URL is fake for demonstration only):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/79m7khhhh1/foo.docx?dl=0

You may be able to use this link in GDE if you change the last character to a 1 (?dl=1 after your filename) and in uncheck “check for errors before loading viewer” on the Advanced tab of GDE Settings. If this doesn’t work, you can use your browser’s dev tools while clicking on the “direct download” option to get the true URL of the document, which usually begins with something like https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/...

I have a better way of doing this from GDE planned but at the moment development of the plugin is not active; the plugin is in support mode until I have more free time or Google fixes some of their own bugs.

Hope this helps,

Kevin

Kevin

That works perfectly – thank you so much

Do you know if there are any system requirements to view the doc – or can it be viewed on any OS?

Again, this is a massive help and does exactly what I need. much appreciated.

Sam

Sam,

As the plugin is purely web code it should work on any recent-ish OS or browser, including mobile.

Glad the Dropbox instructions were helpful to you!

Kevin

The dropbox instructions worked great for me too, Kevin.

Thanks a lot.

Gonzalo.